Month: September 2014

So, I bugged out with an easy dessert using a recipe from Taste of Home’s September/October issue! The recipe is called Frosted Pistachio Bars. They kind of taste like a cookie/cake combination…but more like a soft cookie than anything. I can see a lot of variations could be done with this bar, but here’s one I came up with for Halloween. Then again, my kids (who aren’t THAT young) loved this, so maybe it’s good for crazy kids who like candy bugs and slugs on their food. The dessert is…

My youngest daughter was asked by one of her teachers to interview one of her parents about 9/11. It’s difficult to express to a child what type of impact all of this had on us that day. So many lives were lost without just cause. I remember going to a grocery store the following day. People were silent as we heard names read off of a long list of people killed. The images will haunt us forever, but the aftermath of what happened to my husband was even more…